Ally Carter Quotes

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

Might have a couple of kinks to work through," Hale admitted then reached for her hand. As soon as he touched her, Kat knew there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes--they are the masters of their own fate. And right then Kat wouldn't have changed a thing.

Who can control his fate?

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

We are the makers of our own lives. There is no such thing as fate. Our lives are the result of our previous actions, our karma, and it naturally flows that, having been ourselves the makers of our karma, we must also be able to unmake it.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.

Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

The word 'fate' doesn't really mean much to me in some ways. I think we make our own.

The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.

That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - that was the one cardinal sin in our community.

In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.

People make their own destinies.

I believe whatever has to happen will happen - you just need to stand up for yourself.

We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal.